Margarette Lincoln

'Perfection'

Bog | Engelsk

A colourful account of womens health, beauty, and cosmetic aids, from stays and corsets to todays viral trends Victorian women ate arsenic to achieve an ideal, pale complexion, while in the 1790s balloon corsets were all the rage, designed to make the we

'Trading in War'

Bog | Engelsk

A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of Britain